Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Parisbre56]

Check the Crystal Texts to search for locations of old Bird people settlements (if they even had settlements and they weren't nomadic). See if there's any correlation with modern Corven settlements and sightings of Fire Singers (assuming their existence is something I would know about). I'm interested both in learning about any possible connection and in finding any locations of ancient bird people settlements that could be explored to learn more about them.

Also check the Crystal Texts for references to the Giant Door that makes things behind it very large and that place the explorer's guild wants us to explore to accept us as members.

Spoiler: "Kara" the Corven (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kara" is what most humans call her, though the closest pronunciation would be  Kr'ra-Kax
Race: Corven (advantage for climb, disadvantage for falls)
Appearance: She is a crow-like Corven with matte-black feathers. A bit short. Constantly moves her head around, examining her surroundings. Moves her tail up and down whenever she's excited.
Age: Adult, but just barely
Goal: Wants to find artifacts and experiences that she can use to make an (under)world-famous museum. Wants to prove herself to her mother and piss off her brother with her success (both financially and socially).

Status
Sacrificed left arm to reverse time (eaten by giant Shluck-like thing). Bandaged.

Stats
Str:11
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End: 10
Awa:12
Cun:11 
Kno:12
Ner:12

Skills
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 2
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 2
Navigation: 1

Inventory
Heavy Crystal Mirror Armour Shroud
Golden pin (in forearm)
Crystal Friend (with riding harness + Obedience Rod)
Radio
35 fathoms (1% royalty for flame)
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Crystal Weapon
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Shiny interconnected colorful gems
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Notes on insect saddle construction
Ancient Bird-people idols
Ancient Mole-jewels depicting unknown beast
Kara's Diary

In Storage
15 chemical junk
22 mechanical junk
Crystal Tablets (diary about All-Eater and Great Destroyer, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes
A large number of shiny gold-like messenger path rocks

[Radio Controlled]

((If I looked at the map correctly, we used only about 25 fuel, feel free to correct me if I made a dumb. If nobody corrects this I'll deduce fathoms next turn to refuel the bore on the wiki.

Also, drugbust team, did you guys ever decide how much, if any, of the bounty to put into the team fund for bore upgrades and such?

Crystal explo peeps, as far as I know there were 4 of us really active during that mission: Clate, Kara, Rhea and Adam. Is this correct, or am I forgetting someone?))

Make arrangements for a meeting with a church official in the near future, preferably Deepwalker Leon if he is available.

About those crystal tablets we 'borrowed', could Clate create a full copy of the library with crystalshaping in a reasonable time? Alternatively, could we transcribe them in a reasonable timeframe?

Can we get a quote for the following bore repairs (individually please, taking into account the reduction we get in Anvil):
- repairing/replacing the drill
- getting that glass orb 'o doom outta there.

Finally, if we were to sell our warehouse in Anvil, how much would get us?

Spoiler: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza (click to show/hide)

Name: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza
Description: A young man of slightly pale complexion and eternal 9 o’clock shadow, he was raised in a small village. While the village priest and passing mystics droned with endless sermons of the Church and their teachings, what had always captivated young Adam’s attention more were the stories of his Granny.
Old stories of the world as it once was, before people were forced to flee to the caves and crannies of this damp hell. Of warm days where pleasant green plants tickled your feet as you walked through them and a cool breeze blew through your hair. Where food was plentiful, nature was benign and endless vistas reached as far as they eye could see.
Adam was nominally a card-carrying member of the church, though he mostly did it for the connections and perks that brought. They were powerful and had ancient lore, all things he would need to fulfill his true heart’s desire: to return to the surface, vanquish the madness that tainted their homeland and reconquer paradise.
After his encounter with a Word of God, the edges of his vision are flickering with black flame and his skin is extremely pale with what appear to be black veins instead of the normal blue ones. It also forced him to reevaluate his views on the cthonic church and god.
Goal: Plunge the secrets of the depths below to find an answer to the horrors above.
Stats
Str: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14 
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
48 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people

5000 fathoms from opal sale.

[Ozarck]

Stroll casually and carefully about, examining the passing items for things of interest. In particular, portable musical devices and of course, portable brains or information processing machines.

Spoiler: Not so much a character, but a mistake (click to show/hide)

Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent.
Goal:To find God
 
Stats
Str:10  Dex:10  Spe:10  End:12  Awa:13  Cun:13  Kno:12  Ner:16 (-1)

Skills (+1 skillpoint from levelup)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
3 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks (1 a skull currently holding Lighter Water)
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred) (Shape Steel: very hard to play. untitled song that makes people feel well but fall asleep and have a seizure)
neodymium collar
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
156  Fathoms

[syvarris]

Alex walk up to Nyw, holding a book in his hand. "Hey Nyw do you know where all the other books are? I'm almost done with my set and I couldn't find the others on the bore."

"...No."

((Nyw carried a bunch of books out of the group dive, but I genuinely do not recall what was done with them.  I probably just threw them at someone who wanted them, but I really wasn't paying much attention.

Edit: I checked, see this post and the following one (from just over a year ago!).  Apparently Nyw dropped his books (twenty-five in total) off at the Ethral archives to be translated with Drett's books.  Looking at it, there seems to have been some confusion--my boldtext implies that they got to keep the books, but I also said it'd be the same deal as Drett got, and Drett's turn says the books would be returned to the warehouse along with translations and a bill for the work done.))

Also, drugbust team, did you guys ever decide how much, if any, of the bounty to put into the team fund for bore upgrades and such?

((Nyw took 800 of the 3000 fathoms as his share.  If Alex also takes 800, that'll leave 1400 for the team fund, but I'unno how much money Hotfire even wants.  Other than the two of us, and the big battle at the end, I think we mostly only had randos popping in for a turn or two.))

The adventure kids get to have the armor, new guns, and black flames.  Two smoke bombs for each too, just in case.

Return the two rifles that the kids had been running around with, and 10 fathoms, to the bore.  (Already edited this into the fund page)

Spend awhile lecturing the new inmates/crew on their new duties.  Specifically, a few of them are now assigned to prepare food for everyone else (they can decide who, Nyw knows nothing about food), the rest get to clean up the bore and warehouse a bit, and then loaf around.  Nyw will watch them go about their duties, making sure nobody flees, and then will spend 20f buying them alcohol once they're done.  To celebrate their recruitment into the crew or something.

Edit: I went searching through the thread for something else, and found a post where someone bought injectible tranquilizers for 3f each, in Anvil.  Nyw's had to restrain a number of people lately, so go buy ten of those.  -30f.

Spoiler: The Unpronounceable Undead (click to show/hide)

Name: Nyw'geuq Otin Sunam; calls himself "The Lords' Child"
Description:

((TWO murakumo!  FINALLY, hahahaha!))
Goal: Inscrutable, which is code for "Talks like this.".

Stats:
Str: 15 
Dex: 9
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 13

Skills: (One unspent skillpoint)
Unarmed: +1
Defense Skill: +3 (Full Plate)
Vehicle Skill: +1
Caving: +1
Navigation: +1
Murakumo: +2 (+1/3)


Inventory:
Full Plate Armor [Protective 4]
Ornamental Mask of the Child

Extremely crude harness, holding all Nyw's weapons:
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3]
----Enchanted to remove fragility.
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3]
----Enchanted to remove fragility.
Giant Guardian Hatchet [Chop 4, ]
Three knives [Cut 2, Pierce 2]
Tungsten Toothpick [Pierce 5] (10/10)
Slave Trap
Nine smoke bombs
Five flashbangs
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [5/5 shotshells] [shotgun 3] [Pierce 3] (5 spare shotshells) (3 spare slugs)
Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (10/10) (940 spare rounds)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers

127 fathoms.

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.

Bore NPC "inmates":
--Five moths
--One lizard dude
--Two humans

[Radio Controlled]

((I'd personally be fine with everyone on the crystal explo team also taking 800 per person, leaving 1800 for the team fund. Then if we also dump the proceeds from eg. selling (copies of) the crystal tablets, selling that cult chest and the info on the cult to the church into the team fund, we'll have a lot of money to upgrade our bore with.))

[Ozarck]

((iirc hotfire claimed in Discord last week that he'd wanted to split the reward between Alex and Nyw, not leaving any for the team fund or otherwise. Something about you two being the only ones who did anything on that front. I'm fine with that myself.))

[Hotfire90]

((I knew that the books were brought to the archives for translating, I was just waiting for the perfect opportunity to mention the books and then reclaim them.))

"Gah! How can they be missing? Where did you even lose them? It can't have been in Chamel, and the only other towns we were at were Anvil and Empyrean. They better not be in Empyrean, the absolute last thing I need to know is that the Church has acquired my books for themselves."

Increase persuasion to 2 and armorsmith to 1. Claim my share of 1500 fathoms, leaving 700 for the rest of the team.

Start the search for the missing books at the Ethral Archive, if anyone knows more about the missing books it's them.

Spoiler: Alex Wells (click to show/hide)

Name: Alex Wells
Description: A middle aged man standing 5'7" feet tall. He has short brown hair and an unkempt beard.
Goal: Exploring the depths and collecting its wealth.
Status: Fine.
Stats:
Str: 12
Dex: 11
Spe: 12
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 13
Kno: 12
Ner: 12
Skills:
Explosives 2
Mechanical 1
Survival 1
Caving 1
Chemical 2
Geology 1
4 Skill points
Inventory:
Weapons:
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4, ?)
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
Black Flame (Cut 3)
Rifle (Pierce 2) 3/10
4 TNT (explosive 4)


Armor and Clothes:
Silk shirt
Gas mask

Tools:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
Grappling Hook

Tinkering:
2 lenses
Crystal Golem (flat disc and hooks)
Crystal box of golem limbs
A severed leg

Valuables:
3 Fathoms
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Rhea Alcove
Description: A female human with blonde hear. She holds a Hooked Cleaver in her right hand and wears a Mail Shirt for protection. She wears a denim shirt and denim jeans, along with tennis shoes.
Goal: To explore and learn as much as she can

Stats:
Str:11
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:11
Ner:12

Skills:
Weapon Skill(Cleaver): 1
Diving: 1
Unarmed: 1
Persuasion: 1
Defense Skill(Mail Armor): 1
Survival: 1
Biological: 1
Caving: 1
Navigation: 1
Animal Handling: 1
Geology: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x1
Organic/Bio Junk x6
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature

Dive to Konis, because of lightning being weather, then to Jal for shielding. Reinforce Jal 2 times. Purpose of dive is to shield myself from lightning

[banelord]

Hey Adam, after we've grabbed these repairs what's the plan? There are some ruins near here, know nothing about them but they're really not far away. Other than that I want to grab some material sacrifices for my arm but I need the fathoms, so is there anything you suggest job wise around here?

Attempt again to make a spooky bone guitar using my occult knowledge, then if I succeed at this try a basic spooky music tune.

Spoiler: Ony (click to show/hide)

Name: Ony
Description: Grey furred mole man with welding burn scars on his face.
Goal: Found a new town to make mechanical marvels

Stats
Str: 12
Dex: 10
Spe: 8
End: 12
Awa: 10
Cun: 9
Kno: 9
Ner:13

Skills
Diving 2
Occult 1
Electronics 1
Survival 1
Weaponsmith 2
Mechanical 1

Inventory
Relic Fragment
7 Fathoms
Modified Ethral Gatling Gun [Pierce 4, Full Auto 4]

Augments and Anomalies
Grappling Hook arm, made of flesh and mechanical parts

[Radio Controlled]

Hey Adam, after we've grabbed these repairs what's the plan? There are some ruins near here, know nothing about them but they're really not far away. Other than that I want to grab some material sacrifices for my arm but I need the fathoms, so is there anything you suggest job wise around here?

Attempt again to make a spooky bone guitar using my occult knowledge, then if I succeed at this try one of the basic music pieces AsHul has developed.

"We have no specific plans yet. We could indeed go and explore those ruins, or follow up on that dangerous cult if the church wants us to. Or something else, we have a lot of leads.

If you would like to do some smal jobs for some quick cash, I would suggest taking a look at the bounty board here in Anvil."

((I'd propose we first do the repairs and upgrades, then collect our mission/job options into a small list and just vote on what we do after this. More info about that bounty board here: https://dig.fandom.com/wiki/Anvil#The_Bounty_Boards))

[Pancaek]

Keep on keeping an eye on Rhea as she dives. Can't let these unsanctioned psykers out of your sight.

Help with tablet translating/transcribing if people come for my help with that sort of thing. While translating, keep an eye out for info pertaining to schlucks, the overmind, and crystal people golem making and stoneforming. Just in case some juicy info comes up.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9
Kno:  14
Ner:  15

Skills
Natural +3 Caving
Natural +3 Geology
Natural Mute
Natural No clothing
Natural Stonesenses
Natural Stoneshaping

Unarmed: +2
Weapon skill: Stone Blade +2
Stealth: +1
Archeology: +2
Weaponsmith: +2
Navigation: +1
Armorsmith: +1
Chemical: +1
Crystal Biology: +1

Inventory
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
TNT x5
Dynamo lantern
Field lighter
Path markers x10
"Muggy"(skull mug scrimshawed with "can we fix it?" on the side, "No, it's fucked." on the bottom. Has trigger on the inside of the spine-handle that, when squeezed, caused the mandible to open and close)
100ft silk rope
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod (on loan to Kara)
Silver ethral pendant: small silver pendant in the shape of a compound eye wreathed in white fire
Ethral archive promissory note




443 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
5. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
7. snake golem. Its larger than the original by several times and rougher, sort of like a squirming line of uncut gemstones, each the size of a human fist.
8. Crystal Praying Mantis (Can fire lazer, Cut 4 Claws)

Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
Mail shirt (Made to integrate directly into the exosuit, protecting surface that houses Shluck including head.Protect 3)
Rifle (pierce2, 6/10 magazine)
Small Knife from crystal barrel
Small bowl from crystal barrel
roll of very thin and flexible stone
small cube of the extremely dense material
sharp pyramid shaped wedge thing
3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot

1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
6. Rolling Orb
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.

[piecewise]

Check the Crystal Texts to search for locations of old Bird people settlements (if they even had settlements and they weren't nomadic). See if there's any correlation with modern Corven settlements and sightings of Fire Singers (assuming their existence is something I would know about). I'm interested both in learning about any possible connection and in finding any locations of ancient bird people settlements that could be explored to learn more about them.

Also check the Crystal Texts for references to the Giant Door that makes things behind it very large and that place the explorer's guild wants us to explore to accept us as members.

Spoiler: "Kara" the Corven (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kara" is what most humans call her, though the closest pronunciation would be  Kr'ra-Kax
Race: Corven (advantage for climb, disadvantage for falls)
Appearance: She is a crow-like Corven with matte-black feathers. A bit short. Constantly moves her head around, examining her surroundings. Moves her tail up and down whenever she's excited.
Age: Adult, but just barely
Goal: Wants to find artifacts and experiences that she can use to make an (under)world-famous museum. Wants to prove herself to her mother and piss off her brother with her success (both financially and socially).

Status
Sacrificed left arm to reverse time (eaten by giant Shluck-like thing). Bandaged.

Stats
Str:11
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End: 10
Awa:12
Cun:11 
Kno:12
Ner:12

Skills
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 2
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 2
Navigation: 1

Inventory
Heavy Crystal Mirror Armour Shroud
Golden pin (in forearm)
Crystal Friend (with riding harness + Obedience Rod)
Radio
35 fathoms (1% royalty for flame)
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Crystal Weapon
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Shiny interconnected colorful gems
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Notes on insect saddle construction
Ancient Bird-people idols
Ancient Mole-jewels depicting unknown beast
Kara's Diary

In Storage
15 chemical junk
22 mechanical junk
Crystal Tablets (diary about All-Eater and Great Destroyer, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes
A large number of shiny gold-like messenger path rocks

Nothing about the door, but you do find some references to the location of bird settlements. The only one you can really make heads or tails of is the one that is "Beyond the great falls" which you take to mean the "Fathomless Falls" near Mistcliff. Whether they're talking about the fault that contains the falls or the ancient cavern system below it, you're not sure. The fault seems the most likely though, since birds would likely be a lot more at home there than in a cavern whose only entrance is beyond miles of flooded caverns.

((If I looked at the map correctly, we used only about 25 fuel, feel free to correct me if I made a dumb. If nobody corrects this I'll deduce fathoms next turn to refuel the bore on the wiki.

Also, drugbust team, did you guys ever decide how much, if any, of the bounty to put into the team fund for bore upgrades and such?

Crystal explo peeps, as far as I know there were 4 of us really active during that mission: Clate, Kara, Rhea and Adam. Is this correct, or am I forgetting someone?))

Make arrangements for a meeting with a church official in the near future, preferably Deepwalker Leon if he is available.

About those crystal tablets we 'borrowed', could Clate create a full copy of the library with crystalshaping in a reasonable time? Alternatively, could we transcribe them in a reasonable timeframe?

Can we get a quote for the following bore repairs (individually please, taking into account the reduction we get in Anvil):
- repairing/replacing the drill
- getting that glass orb 'o doom outta there.

Finally, if we were to sell our warehouse in Anvil, how much would get us?

Spoiler: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza (click to show/hide)

Name: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza
Description: A young man of slightly pale complexion and eternal 9 o’clock shadow, he was raised in a small village. While the village priest and passing mystics droned with endless sermons of the Church and their teachings, what had always captivated young Adam’s attention more were the stories of his Granny.
Old stories of the world as it once was, before people were forced to flee to the caves and crannies of this damp hell. Of warm days where pleasant green plants tickled your feet as you walked through them and a cool breeze blew through your hair. Where food was plentiful, nature was benign and endless vistas reached as far as they eye could see.
Adam was nominally a card-carrying member of the church, though he mostly did it for the connections and perks that brought. They were powerful and had ancient lore, all things he would need to fulfill his true heart’s desire: to return to the surface, vanquish the madness that tainted their homeland and reconquer paradise.
After his encounter with a Word of God, the edges of his vision are flickering with black flame and his skin is extremely pale with what appear to be black veins instead of the normal blue ones. It also forced him to reevaluate his views on the cthonic church and god.
Goal: Plunge the secrets of the depths below to find an answer to the horrors above.
Stats
Str: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14 
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
48 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people

5000 fathoms from opal sale.

Leon isn't currently available, he's somewhere in the depths, apparently in the unmapped areas near Fire's Blessing. Its unknown when He'll be back. He has left word though, that if you want to speak with someone you should speak with his protege who is supposed to still be in Eclipse.

He could.

Replacing the drill with a new one would cost 300 fathoms for a simple swap. The cost of removing the orb depends on who is doing it. If you bring it to the church, they might pay YOU to take it for themselves. If you ask a normal bore company, something in the 100-150 fathom range.

If you clean it up, patch some of the holes, etc, couple thousand. As is...1-1.5k

Stroll casually and carefully about, examining the passing items for things of interest. In particular, portable musical devices and of course, portable brains or information processing machines.

Spoiler: Not so much a character, but a mistake (click to show/hide)

Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent.
Goal:To find God
 
Stats
Str:10  Dex:10  Spe:10  End:12  Awa:13  Cun:13  Kno:12  Ner:16 (-1)

Skills (+1 skillpoint from levelup)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
3 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks (1 a skull currently holding Lighter Water)
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred) (Shape Steel: very hard to play. untitled song that makes people feel well but fall asleep and have a seizure)
neodymium collar
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
156  Fathoms

You move slowly down the catwalk, looking all around you for anything that could be useful to you. After about 5 minutes of fruitless searching you fall on your butt as the floor of the catwalk begins to move under your feet. You look down and find that the catwalk is actually a conveyor belt and you're now being shuttled along. In the distance you see a series of mechanical arms sliding down into place on rails next to the catwalk turned conveyor belt. They don't look friendly.

Alex walk up to Nyw, holding a book in his hand. "Hey Nyw do you know where all the other books are? I'm almost done with my set and I couldn't find the others on the bore."

"...No."

((Nyw carried a bunch of books out of the group dive, but I genuinely do not recall what was done with them.  I probably just threw them at someone who wanted them, but I really wasn't paying much attention.

Edit: I checked, see this post and the following one (from just over a year ago!).  Apparently Nyw dropped his books (twenty-five in total) off at the Ethral archives to be translated with Drett's books.  Looking at it, there seems to have been some confusion--my boldtext implies that they got to keep the books, but I also said it'd be the same deal as Drett got, and Drett's turn says the books would be returned to the warehouse along with translations and a bill for the work done.))

Also, drugbust team, did you guys ever decide how much, if any, of the bounty to put into the team fund for bore upgrades and such?

((Nyw took 800 of the 3000 fathoms as his share.  If Alex also takes 800, that'll leave 1400 for the team fund, but I'unno how much money Hotfire even wants.  Other than the two of us, and the big battle at the end, I think we mostly only had randos popping in for a turn or two.))

The adventure kids get to have the armor, new guns, and black flames.  Two smoke bombs for each too, just in case.

Return the two rifles that the kids had been running around with, and 10 fathoms, to the bore.  (Already edited this into the fund page)

Spend awhile lecturing the new inmates/crew on their new duties.  Specifically, a few of them are now assigned to prepare food for everyone else (they can decide who, Nyw knows nothing about food), the rest get to clean up the bore and warehouse a bit, and then loaf around.  Nyw will watch them go about their duties, making sure nobody flees, and then will spend 20f buying them alcohol once they're done.  To celebrate their recruitment into the crew or something.

Edit: I went searching through the thread for something else, and found a post where someone bought injectible tranquilizers for 3f each, in Anvil.  Nyw's had to restrain a number of people lately, so go buy ten of those.  -30f.

Spoiler: The Unpronounceable Undead (click to show/hide)

Name: Nyw'geuq Otin Sunam; calls himself "The Lords' Child"
Description:

((TWO murakumo!  FINALLY, hahahaha!))
Goal: Inscrutable, which is code for "Talks like this.".

Stats:
Str: 15 
Dex: 9
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 13

Skills: (One unspent skillpoint)
Unarmed: +1
Defense Skill: +3 (Full Plate)
Vehicle Skill: +1
Caving: +1
Navigation: +1
Murakumo: +2 (+1/3)


Inventory:
Full Plate Armor [Protective 4]
Ornamental Mask of the Child

Extremely crude harness, holding all Nyw's weapons:
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3]
----Enchanted to remove fragility.
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3]
----Enchanted to remove fragility.
Giant Guardian Hatchet [Chop 4, ]
Three knives [Cut 2, Pierce 2]
Tungsten Toothpick [Pierce 5] (10/10)
Slave Trap
Nine smoke bombs
Five flashbangs
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [5/5 shotshells] [shotgun 3] [Pierce 3] (5 spare shotshells) (3 spare slugs)
Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (10/10) (940 spare rounds)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers

127 fathoms.

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.

Bore NPC "inmates":
--Five moths
--One lizard dude
--Two humans

Nyw and his newly upgraded adventure lads oversee the work of the new "hires", mostly sticking outside the bore and directing cleaning and restoration of the warehouse. No one tries to make a run for it, at least not yet. A few still seem to be following the cult's dogma and are being very quiet, while the others range between grumbling about injustice and just being glad to not be in prison.

Most seem to enjoy the booze afterwards though.

((I knew that the books were brought to the archives for translating, I was just waiting for the perfect opportunity to mention the books and then reclaim them.))

"Gah! How can they be missing? Where did you even lose them? It can't have been in Chamel, and the only other towns we were at were Anvil and Empyrean. They better not be in Empyrean, the absolute last thing I need to know is that the Church has acquired my books for themselves."

Increase persuasion to 2 and armorsmith to 1. Claim my share of 1500 fathoms, leaving 700 for the rest of the team.

Start the search for the missing books at the Ethral Archive, if anyone knows more about the missing books it's them.

Spoiler: Alex Wells (click to show/hide)

Name: Alex Wells
Description: A middle aged man standing 5'7" feet tall. He has short brown hair and an unkempt beard.
Goal: Exploring the depths and collecting its wealth.
Status: Fine.
Stats:
Str: 12
Dex: 11
Spe: 12
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 13
Kno: 12
Ner: 12
Skills:
Explosives 2
Mechanical 1
Survival 1
Caving 1
Chemical 2
Geology 1
4 Skill points
Inventory:
Weapons:
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4, ?)
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
Black Flame (Cut 3)
Rifle (Pierce 2) 3/10
4 TNT (explosive 4)


Armor and Clothes:
Silk shirt
Gas mask

Tools:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
Grappling Hook

Tinkering:
2 lenses
Crystal Golem (flat disc and hooks)
Crystal box of golem limbs
A severed leg

Valuables:
3 Fathoms
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

You'll have to remind me what the "Missing books" are. The other stuff consider done.

Hey Adam, after we've grabbed these repairs what's the plan? There are some ruins near here, know nothing about them but they're really not far away. Other than that I want to grab some material sacrifices for my arm but I need the fathoms, so is there anything you suggest job wise around here?

Attempt again to make a spooky bone guitar using my occult knowledge, then if I succeed at this try a basic spooky music tune.

Spoiler: Ony (click to show/hide)

Name: Ony
Description: Grey furred mole man with welding burn scars on his face.
Goal: Found a new town to make mechanical marvels

Stats
Str: 12
Dex: 10
Spe: 8
End: 12
Awa: 10
Cun: 9
Kno: 9
Ner:13

Skills
Diving 2
Occult 1
Electronics 1
Survival 1
Weaponsmith 2
Mechanical 1

Inventory
Relic Fragment
7 Fathoms
Modified Ethral Gatling Gun [Pierce 4, Full Auto 4]

Augments and Anomalies
Grappling Hook arm, made of flesh and mechanical parts

[20]
Ony runs out of the workshop and slams the door behind him. Something behind the door is banging against it and making a sound like 50 gallons of spaghetti being sucked through a rubber hose.

"ASSISTANCE REQUIRED! MUSIC HAS TOO MUCH SOUL OVER HERE!"

Keep on keeping an eye on Rhea as she dives. Can't let these unsanctioned psykers out of your sight.

Help with tablet translating/transcribing if people come for my help with that sort of thing. While translating, keep an eye out for info pertaining to schlucks, the overmind, and crystal people golem making and stoneforming. Just in case some juicy info comes up.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9
Kno:  14
Ner:  15

Skills
Natural +3 Caving
Natural +3 Geology
Natural Mute
Natural No clothing
Natural Stonesenses
Natural Stoneshaping

Unarmed: +2
Weapon skill: Stone Blade +2
Stealth: +1
Archeology: +2
Weaponsmith: +2
Navigation: +1
Armorsmith: +1
Chemical: +1
Crystal Biology: +1

Inventory
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
TNT x5
Dynamo lantern
Field lighter
Path markers x10
"Muggy"(skull mug scrimshawed with "can we fix it?" on the side, "No, it's fucked." on the bottom. Has trigger on the inside of the spine-handle that, when squeezed, caused the mandible to open and close)
100ft silk rope
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod (on loan to Kara)
Silver ethral pendant: small silver pendant in the shape of a compound eye wreathed in white fire
Ethral archive promissory note




443 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
5. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
7. snake golem. Its larger than the original by several times and rougher, sort of like a squirming line of uncut gemstones, each the size of a human fist.
8. Crystal Praying Mantis (Can fire lazer, Cut 4 Claws)

Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
Mail shirt (Made to integrate directly into the exosuit, protecting surface that houses Shluck including head.Protect 3)
Rifle (pierce2, 6/10 magazine)
Small Knife from crystal barrel
Small bowl from crystal barrel
roll of very thin and flexible stone
small cube of the extremely dense material
sharp pyramid shaped wedge thing
3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot

1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
6. Rolling Orb
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Rhea Alcove
Description: A female human with blonde hear. She holds a Hooked Cleaver in her right hand and wears a Mail Shirt for protection. She wears a denim shirt and denim jeans, along with tennis shoes.
Goal: To explore and learn as much as she can

Stats:
Str:11
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:11
Ner:12

Skills:
Weapon Skill(Cleaver): 1
Diving: 1
Unarmed: 1
Persuasion: 1
Defense Skill(Mail Armor): 1
Survival: 1
Biological: 1
Caving: 1
Navigation: 1
Animal Handling: 1
Geology: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x1
Organic/Bio Junk x6
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature

Dive to Konis, because of lightning being weather, then to Jal for shielding. Reinforce Jal 2 times. Purpose of dive is to shield myself from lightning

[14 + 7 + 1 + 13 + 19][4,19]
[18,5]

At the same time Clate gets blasted out a door and bounces down to the level blow, wreathed in electrical discharge. If he was fleshy this would probably be very bad but given that he is literally a rock it only seems to annoy him.  Rhea comes floating out of the room, hovering in a corona of electricity, body bent backwards and limbs contorted as all her muscles tighten and spasm. She opens her mouth and screams a noise like thunder before drifting up towards the cockpit.

 

[The Lupanian]

Return from the mysterious realm of the conspicuous background characters to help fight the horrors that have made themselves present. Don’t do anything yet, but shoot the guitar-demon if it emerges.

Also, I leveled up, just STR and DEX

Spoiler: Harm (click to show/hide)

Name: Harmony “Harm” Li
Description: Lean and broody looking. This woman has short black hair and is partially covered in interlocking black tattoos. One of her eyes is covered with an eyepatch. She wears simple black clothes, with a knee-length Maggot Wool Coat overtop. She wears a mail shirt underneath her clothes.
Goal: Overall, Harm would like to find a place where refugees and travelers could seek refuge without dealing with the dogmatic influence of the church. Right now, though, she just wants to get away.
 
Stats
Str:12
Dex:13
Spe:11
End:11
Awa:11
Cun:14
Kno:11
Ner:12

Skills
Weapon smith (3)
Mechanical (2)
Occult (1)
Lucky Shot (1)

2 unassigned

Condition
Hand has been severed, then reattached (fully healed).

Inventory
Eyepatch
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Small Obsidian Knife [cut, stab 3. Fragile]
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
50 Obsidian Shurikens (cut 3, fragile)
Obsidian arrowhead (cut 4, fragile)
6 Octahedrons
Half a ton of obsidian
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Crossbow (crossbow 3)(5/5 bolts)
 -25 bolts [pierce (Random, d4 each time)(fragile)]
Lucky Shot (7/7)(23 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes (in eye socket)
Field Lighter
9 Path Markers
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
6 sturdy glass bottles
Fistful of opals
395 fathoms

[Pancaek]

Clate, annoyed and slightly disoriented, gets out his radio

... . -. -.. / .... .- .-.. .--.

-.. .. ...- . .-. / .- .-- --- .-.. / --- -. / -... --- .-. .

[Naturegirl1999]

Clate, annoyed and slightly disoriented, gets out his radio

... . -. -.. / .... .- .-.. .--.

-.. .. ...- . .-. / .- .-- --- .-.. / --- -. / -... --- .-. .

Tell me if the translation is wrong
send?hal?iver?awol?on?bor?
the website I used to convert